Saul kripke at the mathematics genealogy project saul kripke, genius logician, a short, nontechnical interview by andreas saugstad, february 25, 2001. Philosophy 5 lecture 07 kripkes naming and necessity. Kripke thinks that the similarities between names and kind terms extend beyond their nondescriptionality. Kripke expresses this difference by saying that aristotle is a rigid. View notes kripke lecture 3 from phil 8310 at utah valley university. Kripkes naming and necessity lecture three 10ptagainst. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of. Analogies between proper names and natural kind terms.
The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. Naming and necessity, lecture i professor jeeloo liu saul kripke. Burgess saul kripke, naming and necessity a priori and. Scholars have recently established that the iliad and the odyssey were not, after all, written by homer. It is a point, made by donnellan,3 that under certain circumstances a. They were actually written by another author, of the same name. An incomplete presentation was published the next year kripke 1971, and a transcript of the princeton lectures, plus footnotes and addenda, constituting the first or article version of naming and necessity, appeared the year after kripke 1972.
A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. And i really liked it, at least the first two lectures. Kripke on naming and necessity university of toronto. Second annual saul kripke lecture by john burgess on the necessity of origin at the cuny graduate center, november th, 2012. Kripke is beholden to a metaphysics of the use of words those denoting natural kinds being in the first instance predicates, and not names, making the whole discussion a bit mysterious according to which words intrinsically latch on to some real feature of the world and decide for counterfactual cases which things they would apply to, across. Naming, necessity, and apriority part i consists of the first four chapters. He further thinks that natural kind terms, like names, are rigid designators. According to the fregerussell paradigm, the name nixon refers to its bearer in virtue of an associated description, one that picks out nixon by uniquely characterizing him. Identity and necessity 185 think, contrary to most recent theorists, that the reference of names is rarely or almost never fixed by means of description. Kripke if there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.
On the other hand it does seem to support surprising conclusions about the modal status of identity statements. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. In 1970, saul kripke gave a series of three lectures at princeton university. But kripke would deny that a speaker would have to know this essence, or to rely upon any other nontrivial criteria distinguishing you from world to world, in order to refer to you by way of a rigid designator kripke 1980, pp. Kripke falls into temptation and proposes a proof, at least for the apparently easier case of the table. In a series of lectures, published as the book naming and necessity, kripke makes a corresponding philosophical case for rejecting several central tenets of the antimetaphysical, linguistically inclined philosophy of the twentieth century. Naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice.
Kripke proposes a millian theory of names, according to which proper. Naming and necessity lecture 3 summary course hero. The later 1970s brought two related articles kripke 1977, kripke 1979. However, since kripke set that topic aside in naming and necessity, and perhaps because there has not yet been enough time for critical responses, noonan sets the topic aside as well. It is enough to note that the view he criticizes under. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and. To every name or designating expression x, there corresponds a cluster of properties, namely the family of those properties. Troubles, which appears is in the authors bibliography, does offer a paper vacuous names and fictional entities on same topic, one highly relevant to the topic of naming. Find a summary of this and each chapter of naming and necessity. His early masterpiece, naming and necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent.
It reframes the early cambridge school as a bugdetecting program for the outdated conceptual baggage we unknowingly. In january of 1970 saul kripke delivered a series of lectures at princeton university that were transcribed into a book, naming and necessity, published in 1972. Philosophy of language handout 12 professor jeeloo liu saul kripke. Naming and necessity is a 1980 book with the transcript of three lectures, given by the philosopher saul kripke, at princeton university in 1970, in which he dealt with the debates of proper names in the philosophy of language. Of coursei waspointing to awooden tablein the room.
In doing so, he develops a framework that he applies to the. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. A good example of a baptism whose reference was fixed by means of a description was that of naming neptune in footnote 3. Saul kripke s archive on the cuny philosophy commons. Lecture notes introduction to philosophy of language.
Kripke lecture 3 if w is a world where aristotle never went into philosophy, d is true, e is false and f is true. It is essential reading for philosophy students studying philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, or the history of analytic philosophy. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Lectures given to the princeton university philosophy colloquium. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364. Note that i am not maintaining that helms thesis that proper names express properties is itself inconsistent with kripke s views on proper names. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. What i am maintaining is that helm is incorrect to think that kripke affirms that proper names express properties in the three lectures contained in naming and necessity. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.
Second lecture, for the rejection of the description theory for fixing reference and defining natural. Naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. Excellent guide to kripke, and the quality of the pdf. Thus the phenomenon of rigidity casts no real doubt on the description theory of names. First, he reiterates that, a popular view about how names get their.
The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and gilbert harman. One of kripke s aims is to show that theoretical identity sentences are necessary, if true. Itwould be a situation in which there was some other woman who had many of the properties that are in fact. Chapter summary for saul kripke s naming and necessity, lecture 3 summary. Kripke ends lecture ii, and starts lecture iii, by discussing certain sorts of identity. Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Although much of his work remains unpublished, several major essays have now appeared in print, most recently in his longawaited collection. The case of a baptism by ostension can perhaps be subsumed under the description concept also. Naming and necessity by saul kripke was first published in book form in 1980 and consists mainly of three lectures given at princeton university, an overview, an essay on the problem of names, and. The preface of 21 pages describes the genesis and background of the leading ideas of the monograph, and discusses a few common misunderstandings. Volume ill, number 3, march 1974 kripke on naming and necessity r. An earlier monograph, naming and necessity, argued that this approach was wrong from the fundamentals, replacing it with a picture that emphasizes the causalhistorical link between a name and its bearer. Its not a single description, but rather a cluster, a family of properties which fixes the reference. January 20, 19701 i hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title.
Kripke starts with a criticism of searles cluster theory. In this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity. We propose a twostep method for studying the history of political thought roughly in line with the contextualism of the cambridge school. Those ways of reading it are interesting, but i think that what kripke is saying is, in the end, quite simple, which is why the book has enjoyed such lasting popularity. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Naming and necessity, lecture ii kripkes critique of the. Saul kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a halfcentury and more. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and. Thought there is much to be said about these series of lectures, well focus on some aspects of his discussion of russells and freges theory of names.